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Saw it today in glorious 2D. Horray for $5 pre-noon showings! There was still about 10-12 people on the theater. I was... a little bit disappointed. I've been following this thread, so I guess all the praise must have raised my expectations. If I would have seen it "cold" (IE, expecting an abortion on-par with the Stallone movie) I probably would have been more impressed. I thought it was Good, but not Great. I still hope they make more of them. I think I remember somebody earlier in the thread praising the movie for the making the bad guys distinctive. I didn't get that at all. The second-in-command guy seemed like a generic mid-level thug, the guy they were escorting around seemed fairly bland, and the only other guy that stuck out was the one with the really bad wig (that probably got the biggest reaction from the crowd).
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My coworkers are stereotypical geeks (comic books, pen and paper RPGs, etc) and none them know anything about Judge Dredd outside of the Stallone movie. These are people that will lap up any and all DC/Marvel movies, but the reaction to this trailer was mostly "They're making another one?! Why? I YAM DUH LAWH!!" Based on my anecdotal information, Dredd is virtually unknown in the US. I'd agree that the trailer totally misfired for this demographic, at least. The only reason I know about 2000AD is because I grew up in Sweden, and I would read the monthly Magnum magazine at a friends house (Magnum licensed various action/sci-fi comics like 2000AD, Aliens, Terminator, Akira, etc). That's probably also why I associate "adult" comics as being B/W; every kid in Sweden had a subscription to the very colorful Bamse and Donald Duck. For some reason I also feel like this movie will be a cult DVD hit. Are there any recent examples of movies that tanked at the box office but made a ton on rentals/VOD/DVD/Blu-Ray?
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twistedmentat posted:It also joins those films I mush together to make the Warhammer 40k movie we will never get to see. Though that isn't hard to imagine because Dredd is pretty much 40k to begin with, and many Dredd artists did work for early Games Workshop books. I don't really get this; isn't 40k all about massive interstellar warfare on a staggering scale? From what little I know about that universe it doesn't seem to have much in common with Judge Dredd... Do civilians even exist in 40k?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Dredd is -- sometimes, in a purely immediate sense -- justified in what he does. But so is Ma-Ma. She came to Peach Trees when it was in a state of constant violence between four different gangs and united it. It's been a while since I saw the film, but I'm pretty sure there's even a pretty little 3D infographic towards the beginning that talks about how violent crime in the block actually decreased once she assumed total control.
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Trinity in Matrix Reloaded (sorta)
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That would have been... special
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Snak posted:For some reason I just imagined Karl Urban's Doctor McCoy...  (I just noticed the insane bowleg in this pose - might want to pop your right hip back into its socket there, chief)
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21st Cherry boy posted:I didn't really like anything in Case Files 2 except the Cursed Earth saga but drat that was a good story.  Relevant BSS thread
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